Enon Lanfear brought the Camels to Hogeye, but the camel story begins years earlier.Enon’s story starts with his birth on Dec. 15, 1828, in Sempronius, Cayuga County, in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. According to “Find a Grave,” his father Deacon Asa Lanfear, 1793-1871, and his family first came to Illinois in 1835, settling in Homer Township, and buying property at the first land sale in Chicago. The first school in Homer Township was on Deacon Lanfear's farm. It was a stable that was used as a schoolhouse.After Enon’s marriage to Sarah Louisa Beedy in 1849, they ...